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When Health Becomes Policing: The Minns Government’s War on Landlords When that black market grows (as it inevitably does), the government blames “greedy retailers,” “criminal syndicates,” or now, “negligent landlords.” But it never blames the prohibitionist policies th...

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“This cognitive dissonance at a policy level, a refusal to connect cause and effect because doing so would mean admitting failure.”

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Only matter of time before anti tobacco harm reduction jihad collapses. Who would have guessed in 1985 USSR & its satellites would all be gone in ~5 years? @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social @publichealthaus.bsky.social
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The FCTC was supposed to help reduce tobacco harm. Instead, it’s been turned into a political weapon
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‘The crisis we’re in’: Australia’s tobacco underbelly dwarfs legal market Astonishing new figures have revealed the scale of Australia’s tobacco underbelly, which will dwarf the legal market after doubling in volume in just three years.

Australia’s legal cig market has decreased by 2/3, from about 11 billion cigarettes sold in 2022 to 3.5 billion by end of 2025. @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

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Major tobacco company blames Albanese govt’s excise for black market boom British American Tobacco Australia (BATA) has blamed the Albanese government’s enormous excise for the unprecedented surge in black market business and multi-billion-dollar revenue losses.

Sale of illegal cigarettes in Australia doubled since 2022, from 3.1 billion to a whopping 6.6 billion by end 2025. Not sustainable!! @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social

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Thank you Prof Tikki Pang for being so clear about bankruptcy of anti Tobacco Harm Reduction cult. It has to collapse & it will @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social

So much compelling evidence available now #vaping much lower risk than smoking & one of most effective quit smoking aids available. Great Volkow now acknowledges this. @sanho.bsky.social

Recognise him? It’s Al Capone! Al taught us when demand for drug (alcohol) is strong & availability restricted/illegal, supply shifts to black market & can get vy violent. Just what happened with cigs/vapes in Australia @jamomartin.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social

For 1st time, more Great Britain adults use vapes >smoke cigarettes. 5.4 million >16 years vaped daily/occasionally in 2024 vs 4.9 million smoke. ie 10% of population vape vs 9.1% smoke—a figure that’s down from 10.5% in 2023 @ianamossyd.bsky.social

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Policy on nicotine vapes & other low risk options now impervious to ever increasing quantity & quality of scientific evidence or even severe unintended negative consequences of failure. But policy heading inevitably for collapse sooner or later @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

Vapes more effective than other quit smoking aids, landmark Cochrane review finds - Clearing the Air A major scientific review has found that vapes containing nicotine are more effective at helping people quit smoking than traditional nicotine replacement

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Amazing what a little common can achieve!

Many countries where smoke-free nicotine options now rapidly replacing deadly cigarettes-despite misinformation tsunami & govt indifference/hostility. Iceland is another country rapidly switching from high to low risk @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
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Smoking cigarettes daily almost extinct in Norwegian women aged 16-19 thanks to substitution by safer, smoke-free nicotine products. That’s one big step for tobacco harm reduction. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
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Number of cigarettes smoked by non-daily smokers recent years in Norway. You can see what’s happening here, can’t you? Why do you think smoking cigarettes is disappearing rapidly in Norway?

Meanwhile 16-19 year old Norwegian men daily smoking heading for extinction after being replaced by daily snus use. It’s called ‘tobacco harm reduction’ & abstinence cultists hate it! #Substitution @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social

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% young people in Denmark who smoke cigarettes daily almost halved from 2014 (15.4%) to 2022 (8.6%), and now fallen to 2.7% (2025). Also reports use of snus & vapes has increased. Replacement of combustible cigarettes by smoke-free nicotine widespread & increasing. How long can denialism survive?

1/2 Japan Tobacco Q3’25 results: Total 🇯🇵cig sales ⬇️another 6.5% vs Q3’24. Overall unit sales heated tobacco products ⬆️by as much as cig sales ⬇️. HTPs now estimated 46.1% of domestic market.

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2/2 Both 🇯🇵 &🇺🇸 on verge of smoke-free products outselling cigs: transformation despite policy & information environment discouraging it.
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Hey Simon, Becky, Cancer Council, @publichealthaus.bsky.social How’s sky high cigarette taxes & vape denialism workin’ for ya? @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social
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Vapers overtake smokers for first time in Great Britain Some 5.4 million adults use vapes daily or occasionally compared with 4.9 million using cigarettes, figures show.

More UK adults now use vapes than smoke cigarettes for the first time. Daily vape use is popular among 25-49 year olds, with increasing numbers of women vaping

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Sad to see @drbfreeman.bsky.social & Simon Chapman descending to this level. Surely by now they must have realised they’ve chosen wrong side & are defending the indefensible. Vapes much safer than smoking & help many smokers quit. @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

Australia's imaginary moral victory When your policies blow up in your face, you can always resort to modelling

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“It is worthless propaganda and obvious quackery.”

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Is vaping less harmful than smoking, and does it help people quit? Answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about vaping and its effects.

Gold medal for Misinformation Hall of Fame to all the anti vape zealots who have persuaded millions of smokers that vapes are as risky, if not even more risky, than combustible cigarettes @profglantz.com @publichealthaus.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social
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Formaldehyde and antifreeze: What’s inside one of the most popular illegal vapes in Australia Alibarbar, one of the most popular vape brands in Australia, despite being illegal, has potentially dangerous levels of nicotine and toxic contaminants.

Sydney Morning Herald prints anti vape propaganda yet again! No wonder many now believe vapes as dangerous or even more so than cigarettes! Complete utter bollocks! @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
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Is vaping less harmful than smoking, and does it help people quit? Answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about vaping and its effects.

Probably no one in world has done more to persuade millions of nonsense that vaping is as, or even more, dangerous than smoking than @profglantz.com This article responds to some other common anti vape myths @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social
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Greatest achievement of vape opponents been to persuade many vaping is as, or even more dangerous than smoking when globally 8 million smoker deaths/year & no scientifically attributed vaping deaths. Propaganda works @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social

Agreed Alex, absolute bollocks!

Vaping: A disruptive innovation of smoking and rapidly replacing cigarettes Recognised as a concept over three decades ago, disruptive innovations are new and improved ways of meeting consumers’ needs that generally sweep away conventional approaches of market-leading firms b...

Inevitability of safer, smoke-free nicotine options soon completely replacing cigarettes @publichealthaus.bsky.social @profglantz.com @drbfreeman.bsky.social @croakeynews.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
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